Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — Page 3

BRITISH U-BOAT IN A CLEVER RUSE

Vessel, Disabled, Captures Mine* Laying Trawler and Sets a Trap. SINKS 6 ENEMY DESTROYERS ©trews Sea With Score of Mines Then Calls Prussian Vessels in German Code and They Rush to Their Destruction. New York.—How a British submarine, disabled and forced to come to the surface in Prussian waters in the North Sea, captured an enemy minelayer and sank six Prussian destroyers was told in graphic language by an officer of a British vessel that arrived at an American port. According to the narrative the officer commanding the submarine forced the mine-layer to tow him out to sea and then, repairs being completed, sowed the’ sea* with mines and in German code sent out a call by wireless that brought six Prussian destroyers down on them. Four of the destroyers struck mines and the remaining two. were sunk by the submarine, jvhich then made her way heme in safety. , “We were cruising oft the mouth of the Weser at night,” the officer told a ■’New York Herald reporter, “when wept wrong with our machinery and we came to a stop. Setting the Trap. “We had passed close by to several Prussian vessels earlier in the evening, but had not touched them, for ours was a mission of observation. So we considered that we would fall In with one very soon. Sure enough, in an hour’s time we caught sight of a dark shape coming down and which would apparently run afoul of us if we kept on. Through the night glasses our lieutenant made her out to be a trawler. At once he decided on a desperate expedient. He sent off the bo’sun and six men, all the available men we had, in our collapsible boat, and as the trawler bore down on us he hailed her in German and reported himself as U-29, with machinery disabled. -

"It wasn’t till she was .right on top of us that they smelled a rat. Someone shouted out an alarm as her overhang grazed us. And as the cry went up our collapsible, which had pulled around, boarded her from the other side. The lieutenant and I went over the trawler’s side and shot two of them before they rushed us, for our boat’s crew had kept the remainder of the watch on deck busy. “Once in possession of the deck it was easy to do for the engine-room force of three and the boat was ours. We made sure that there was no communication from the fo’c’sle except by the locked hatch. Then the lieutenant passed a line to our own submarine and with her engine-room crew working like mad the rest of us on the trawler got under way. It was almost dawn before the engineer on the submarine hailed us and announced that

SNAPS BIRDS FOR MOVIES

Norman McClintock of Pittsburgh, well-known naturalist and ornithologist, is shown here with his movie camera all set to photograph birds at close range. He pitches his tent near the nest and stays there for hours Inside it in all sorts of weather. To keep the dick of the camera shutter from scaring his subjects, he installs a tlcktocking metronome In the tent The metronome, used wherever young hopefuls bang the piano, ticks so constantly that the birds soon pay no attention to 'it and its noise drowns the dick of the camera. , *'

he had cleared away the broken stuff and replaced the rods. “The lieutenant then cast loose from our submarine and the trawler made a wide semicircle, dropping overside all the surface mines she had on board.— 20 of them. Then we sent a radio in' German—the lieutenant had found the Hun’s secret code book In the wheelhouse —calling for help and announcing that the trawler had fallen In with a flotilla of fast British cruisers, evidently bent on a raiding expedition. With that we wrecked the wireless, abandoned the trawler with her crew still locked on the fo’c’sle and submerged behind our barrier of mines. Destroying the Destroyers. “We didn’t have long to wait. The dawn .was just breaking when up from the east came four destroyers in column. We had hardly sighted them when they saw the trawler and spread out fanwise. As they shot into the mine field the leading destroyer went leaping out of the water with her bow torn off. The others sheered and the secomTand third, thus running up the mine trail, both struck, each one being

HAPPY TO BE ALLIES IN THE WAR

Jean Mltcheile, private in the One Hundred and Twelfth; regiment of the French-army, reflecting the smile of a United States naval officer, both happy in the relationship of their respective nations in the upholding of justice and human rights. The French soldier is in this country on a four months’ furlough and is spending part of that precious time in helping the United States navy in its recruiting campaign.

AMERICA IN WAR MEANS FREE WORLD

Former Premier of Greece Says Democratic Nations Will Attain Peace Ideals. CHANGE IN RUSSIA PLEASES Attempt to. Establish “Divine Right” in Greece “Doomed to Failure," Says Famous Statesman — Sympathies With Entente. By ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS. (President of the Greek Provisional Government.) Salonica.—The change that has taken place in the Russian government has been hailed by the new Greece with sincere joy, becansethe abolition of despotism and the triumph of democratic principles in Russia proves in the most conclusive manner that the struggle now going on in the world is essentially a contest between democracy arid autocracy. The entrance into the war -of the great American republic is the most emphatic confirmation possible of the nature of the world conflict. The struggle of the Greek liberal forces against King Constant ine’s clique has never been a fight between people* favoring war and those who favor peace, but it is a struggle of democracy against autrocracy. No party wished for a prolonged period of» peace more than the Liberals, especially after the exhaustion resulting from the tw.o recent Balkan wars. Sympathies With the Entente. Because of the democratic sentiments of the country, however, as well as on account of the bonds of gratitude and common interest. existing between the powers that guaranteed Greek safety and constitution in the eastern Mediterranean, and also because of our alliance with Serbia, all our sympathies were from the beginning of the war with the entente powers. Moreover, we were firmly con--vinced that the developments of the great struggle would, sOoner or later, make our intervention inevitable on account of our treaty with Serbia. In this conviction we were strengthened after Turkey, which never recognized our sovereignty over the isles of the archipelago and which never ceased to proclaim plainly that she would go as far as a war declaration In order to take possession of them, had entered into the war on the. side of the central powers. There never was any doubt in our minds that the world war was our own war and that it was incumbent upon us to enter into it at the first opportunity. Opposed to this policy was that of the king, who claimed that we should

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fairly turn to pieces. The fourth destroyer, her engines reversing at top speed and hauling her back on her haunches, took a pot shot at the trawler for luck, realizing that they had run into a trap. As she was firing we crept slowly up and let her have a torpedo amidships. “The roar of the explosion had hardly” died away when another detonation shook us and we found that two more destroyers had come up from the southward and had fallen afoul of the mines. The leading one was untouched, but the second had struck another mine. As the one remaining destroyer turned to run we made for her at an angle and got her. She went up with an appalling roar. “We had no chance to breathe, however, for something dropped into - the sea close by and exploded. Swinging our periscope upward we found three Taubes circling above us. We turned and cut for home, with the trio hanging over us for more than half an hour, dropping bombs ail around us, and after running with the fear of death in our hearts for more than an hour we got within our cruising area and the Taubes were driven away by a couple of our own seaplanes. “The lieutenant got the Victoria cross for his work and we all got the Military cross.”

maintain our neutrality until the moment Bulgaria attacked Serbia. Had this policy of the king been sincere it would have been entirely honorable. But, as events afterward demonstrated, his policy lacked sincerity. Under the veneer of pacifism that policy attempted to exploit the lassitude which seized Greece after the two Balkan wars. But in reality his policy was due to a secret pact with Germany and had no other purpose than promoting the victory of Germany, because the triumph of Prusslanism* in the king’s opinion, was the only possible oppor-. tunlty for him to impose on Greece an absolute monarchy. We have proof of this. When Bui-, garia attacked Serbia the crown immediately took a position conflicting with that of the majority of the new parliament, refusing to fulfill the obligations contracted by our alliance with Serbia, arid thus opposing the will of the enjire country as expressed through the recent election. The king told me at that time that he did not consider himself bound to abide by the wishes of the people. He said that whenever an important international matter came up for decision he reserved the right to impose upon the nation his personal viewpoint, claiming that he was responsible to God only.

“Divine Right" Doomed to Failure. It is quite obvious that such an attempt to establish in Greece the principle of monarchy by divine right is doomed to failure at a time when that very principle is abolished in Russia Furthermore, the victory over Prussian absolutism and militarism, which will be more decisive and more complete now, owing to the immense material and moral resources thrown in the balance by the great republic, will not only result in the miserable failure of the attempt made by King Constantine, but, we believe and hope, will also demolish in Germany, to its very foundations, the antiquated institution of autocracy, which is incompatible with modern civilization and with the ideals that gave birth to the great North American republic. Allow me to add that the entrance of the United States into the war against the central powers and the noble w’ords uttered by the president in congress make U certain for us that the peace that w’lll follow the victory will give birth to a new political world, tn which the right of self-government will be guaranteed to every people. The league of democratic nations will attain the ideal of universal' peace and eradicate forever the destructive agency now ravaging humanity. . -

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PHILLIES LOOK GOOD TO MANAGER MORAN

MAINSTAYS OF PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL TEAM.

Pat Moran is confident that his Phlllies will capture the pennant this year, although Pat does hot say so in as many words. Moran’s men are in excellent shape and start the season in as good a condition as any other compilation, in Mr. Tener’s circuit. .. ' The team started with the pitching staff composed of Alexander, Rixey, Lavender, Mayer, Oeschger, Flttery and Fortune. Besides Lavender, this means that only Fittery and Fortune, of the young pitchers, have won the complete confidence of Moran. The Phil boss will probably attach strings to all of the pitchers who may make a good showing and are likely to be of service in case of accident. Moran’s outfield problems have not been settled. The illness of Walker, who was unable to get in uniform for several days because of tonsil trouble, was a blow to Moran. Ernie looks like

NESS WITH SEMI-PRO TEAM

Former White Sox First Baseman Refuses to Join Joe Tinker's Columbus Agregation. Jack Ness, former first baseman of the Chicago American league team, who was sold to Joe Tinker’s Columbus

Jack Ness.

American association club and refused to report, will play with a commercial team of Chicago this season.

MISS NO-HIT COLONY

No pitcher on the New York Yankees has ever forced his way into the no-Jill colony in the 14 years that the team has been represented in the American league. In that time, however, nine pitchers have wavered on the ragged edge and have been denied a place in baseball’s Hall of'Fame by one lone hit.' Here ar<> the names of nine who came so’qeur and yet are still far: Bill Wolfe. Jack Chesbro, Billy Hogg, Al Orth. Joe Doyle, Joe Lake, Louis Brockett, Jack Warhop and Russell Ford. Nine onehit games also have been pitched against th£ New York Yankees, and the men who held them in the hollow of their hand, metaphorically speaking, were Fred Glade and Karl Hamilton of St. Louis, Addie Joss (2), Heine Berger (2) and Guy Morton of Cleveland; Eddie Cicotte of Chicago, Ray Bressler of Philadelphia and Carl Cashion of Washington.

a hard hitter and a brilliant chaser of fly balls, but illness has kept him off the field and he has lost invaluable hours of drilling. Captain Luderus is in prime condition and getting his hits in every game. He should be the same dependable clean-up man that he was a year ago. Bancroft has been covering short with his usual dash and brilliance. Byrne has been playing his accustomed safe and sane game at third. Paskert is just as good as he ever was, and Cooper, who will start the season in right field, is hitting the ball hard. A few base hits in Philadelphia will cause quiet Claude to gain the confidence of the fans. With Moran’s unsettled outfield, it is going to be difficult to keep Cravath on the bench as a pinch hitter, as Moran had planned to do. Killefer, Burns and Adams will do the catching again.

BASLBALL NOTES

Umpires go South to take the ragged edges off their decisions. * • * Bert Gallia will likely be a scientific farmer when his baseball days are over. * * ♦ Price of shoes has gone up, so the Pirates are trying to fill Hans Wagner’s. * • * Harry Harper served four years as a Boy &-out and is a great advocate of the movement. * • ♦ . The White Sox have been picked by a majority of the critics of the country to win the pennant. St. Louis turns out more ball players and wins fewer pennants than any city in the country: • ♦ • Manager Griffith is a “shark” at playing bridge, but John Henry runs hhn a close second. And when the ball players are put in the ranks they should be even more careful about hits and errors. ♦ ♦ * Christy Mathewson says “the Giants will be.hard to beat," which is more than he could say of the Reds.

Ballplayers object to military trainIng in the spring because it breaks into their poker games so terribly. « • * Slim Love is the generous pitcher of the Yankees. He passes batsmen so the fielders need not chase the ball. • • • With war and the baseball season starting almost simultaneously this looks like an interesting summer. The fans of Cleveland are more confident that the Indians will be in the race than they have ever been before. .-♦ ♦ * “Too many race track tips are spoiling Brooklyn’s ball players,” says a dispatch. Also emptying their pockets. Roll call shows four McGraws in sport. If the other three are like John J. sport will be better for their com--Rig. ; ? * ♦ .* —— — \ ' A young man named Ward is play,ing shortstop for the Pirates, but he does not expect to fill Hans Wagner’s shoes. ♦ • • Funny thing, but who ever heard of an office boy staying away from work on account of' the death of a grandfather? Tris Speaker is the youngest member of a family of eight. He has six sisters and one brother, but he is the big end of the family. ' i- , -

MINORS IN BIG MOVE

I Plan to Withdraw From National Association by Class AA. International, American Association and Pacific Coast Organizations Dissatisfied—To Be Brought Up at Next Meeting. (By JACK VEIOCK, International News O. W. Wathen, president of the Louisville American Association dab and vice president of the league, expressed the sentiment of the three Mg minor leagues recently when he said plans are being made for a withdrawal from the National association by class AA leagues. : For a number of years the three big minor leagues—the International, Pacific Coast and the American Association- —have been ’ the minority faction In the national organization. *TESBE fall, for the first time, they succeed Al in dominating the annual meeting of the minor leagues at New Orleans. They managed to secure a resolution on the part of the association asking for a change in the draft rules, and the support the move received was a real •surprise. But the three big minors are not satisfied. They feel that they should he permitted to withdraw as active members of the National association. They would like to be recognized as a third party to the national agreement, for they feel that the affairs of their leagues are of no vital interest to. the smaller minors and they believe they could conduct their business to a much better advantage on the outside. President Edward Barrow of the International - League has admitted that such a plan is on foot, and he intimates that it will be brought, up at the next meeting of the national association, which is to be held in Louisville next November. .. . The plan being worked out by the big minors Ls expected to receive the support of the national commission, for it will in no way interfere with the smaller minors, and it will not affect the major leagues in any way. Class AA owners feel they should be set apart from the smaller leagues, because they are In a distinct class by themselves. Furthermore, the vast amount of business in which the many small leagues are interested has little or no interest for AA owners, except in a very few cases where there is a controversy over players. Many of these cases are threshed out between the owners themselves. The new move of the big minors Is in no way an attempt to cut loose from the protecting wing of organized baseball. They merely feel that they, as a distinct branch of the national game, should be permitted to form an organization of their own and operate under the laws of organized baseball in the same manner as the National Association does at present.

KAUFF IN AMERICAN LEAGUE?

Manager Hugh Jennings Says Giant Outfielder Would Bat About .250 in Johnson Circuit. Hughie Jennings says Benny Kauff would bat about .250 if in the American league. “Kauff was a w’ise boy when he elected to go with the Giants,” says Hughie. "There are a dozen, or more, outfielders in the American league who are far superior to him. I could name any Detroit outfielder, two on the Chicago club, two with Cleveland, one with St.

Benny Kauff.

Louis, one with Philadelphia, one with Washington, three with Bbston and two with New York who are superior to him. ' “Kauff is not a good hitter. He is a fellow who stands up to the plate and slams away at the ball. A wise pitcher would have him in the hole all the time. The pitching in the American league is admitted to be much better than that served in the National; the fielding is also better." Kauff says he would like to give the American league a. whirl. . . Benny has cut away from the notion that he is Ty Cobb’s equal as a ballplayer, but he etill thinks he Is pretty good. “Td like to be In the American just to see what I could do," he aaya..